Books Published in July 1985

New Books List: 306 titles

  • The Substitute Bridegroom

    Jeanne Abbott

    ISOLDE WOULD RATHER WED THE DEVIL HIMSELF! For the odious Harold Biggelswade was, in her opinion, a good deal worse than the devil. But her avaricious guardian, Uncle Wendall, insisted the wedding would take place in three weeks. What was a poor ...

  • Seaside Heights

    Harriette S. Abels

  • Revenge of the Master

    Jerry Ahern

    The Master of D.E.A.T.H. returns with another scheme for breaking down the governments who opposed him, this time planning to use an upcoming space shuttle launch as a way to destroy the U.S. space program and set the seeds for his further plans....

  • Undercover Kisses

    Laine Allen

    So what if she rains his Corvette, poses as a secretary snoop into dangerous office intrigue, and gets snagged by hidden cameras during a break-in? That doesn't mean private eye Katrina Langley deserves troubleshooter Moss Adams's meddlesome ...

  • Every Other Weekend

    Moeth Allison

    GEORGIA SILK led the kind of hectic life that left her little time for love. As a TV reporter she spent her time chasing after the kind of exciting story that brought viewers -- and excellent ratings -- to the station. SIMON HANNA started out as...

  • Marmaduke Sounds Off

    Brad Anderson

  • Voices on the Wind

    Evelyn Anthony

    For years Katherine Alfurd had lived alone. But after a few gin and tonic at the village pub she liked to talked about the past... Forty years before, when she was young and beautiful, Katherine Alfurd had been sent into occupied France -- to join ...

  • The Changing

    F.W. Armstrong

  • Saved from Sin

    Lindsay Armstrong

    She'd rushed into marriage Clay Forrester had swept his starry-eyed Australian bride off her feet. He'd made her feel special -- witty and rather daring -- a person who existed only for him, when all along she'd existed only as his ins...

  • Gone from Breezy Hill

    Nora Ashby

  • Love Out of Time

    Steven Ashley

    When Marshall William Hickock pursues a dangerous outlaw into a strange cave, he steps through a time warp into the confusing world of present-day Manhattan and falls in love with a modern young woman...

  • Echoes from the Past

    June Masters Bacher

    A bizarre letter of inheritance draws Kitty Fairfield from her sheltered, lonely existence in Washington to an isolated desert ranch in Arizona where she encounters the handsome but aloof Clayton Mandrone. Captivated by the wealthy yet reclusive la...

  • Tender Adversary

    Judy Baer

    ANGELA ALONE -- Highly competitive, coolly sophisticated, fiercely motivated, she wears her dreams of success on her well-tailored sleeve. But never in her impressive legal career has she encountered a more formidable adversary than... ROB JORDAN -...

  • Off The Hook

    Rose Bayner

    There are plenty of fish in the sea! Or so Annette had told herself when she’d broken up with Todd, her old boyfriend, when she’d left for Ocean City. She planned a great summer, meeting new friends, exploring new possibilities. How could she...

  • So Dear to My Heart

    Dorothy Ann Bernard

    Restoring old homes was Amy Kyles's driving passion, and moving into the beautiful James mansion in Princess Anne, Maryland, was a dream come true. Memories of the handsome sea captain who'd lived there a century ago filled the house, and Amy was soo...

  • Bitter Encore

    Helen Bianchin

    How could they take up where they'd left off? Rachel and Lazare Michel Delany hadn't been allowed an ordinary courtship or a normal marriage. But nothing could erase the memory of the wild, sweet passion they'd shared. Loving Laz ha...

  • Night of the Dragonstar

    David Bischoff

    After establishing contact with the intelligent dinosaurs aboard the alien warship "Dragonstar," something goes wrong, and humans find themselves trapped on the ship with suddenly hostile reptiles and with the ship off on a strange quest into the uni...

  • Wraith Board

    David Bischoff

    WHEN THE MULTIVERSE TURNS TOPSY-TURVY Then Puissant Lords of the Universe fear for their lives...the moon becomes a huge revolving die in the sky...beautiful maidens cavort with dragoons (part dragon, part goon)...trolls write books and invite kni...

  • Corrigan

    Caroline Blackwood

    Corrigan is at once a mordant comedy of manners and a very modern morality play. Since her husband’s death, the increasingly frail Mrs. Blunt has had only her trips to his grave to look forward to. Her raucous housekeeper’s conversation, and c...

  • The Banana Split Affair

    Cynthia Blair

    Susan is a shy straight-A student and talented artist. Her twin sister Christine is outgoing and popular. Envious of each other’s lives, they decide to trade places.  But complications arise when Chris falls for the boy Susan likes and Susan h...

  • Kiss and Tell

    Shannon Blair

    Will Pete give Denise a second chance… When her boyfriend, Pete, doesn’t want to go to a party, Denise Taylor decides to go without him. The party turns out to be lots of fun. Everyone there is so warm and friendly -- especially Billy. He bare...

  • The Children of Anthi

    Jay D. Blakeney

    To find freedom, Omari hijacks a ship to escape his world and reach the Uncharted Zone, but on the planet Ruantl, he finds himself a hostage in an underground city beneath a radioactive wasteland and to survive he must undergo the ultimate sacrifice...

  • Ghost Tower

    Jean Blashfield
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

  • The Case of the Hardboiled Dicks

    John Blumenthal

  • The Tinseltown Murders

    John Blumenthal

  • Fire Like the Sun

    Michael Bond

    After glimpsing an atomic weapon inside the pack being transported by his client on a tour in Nepal, Sam Cohen flees for his life, from Nepal to Greece, Marseille, Paris, New York, and, finally, to a brutal confrontation in Colorado...

  • Bed and Board

    Rebecca Bond

    She could share his love but not his life All of a year and most of her money had been spent renovating Whaler's Inn. On the eve of its opening, Aviva Thompson sat serenely, basking in the quiet of a Carmel night and the pleasant glow of a job wel...

  • A Natural Woman

    D.V. Bowie

    It's 1985. Threatened by the spectre of mortal illness, beautiful Abigail Winslow suddenly forsakes her glittering world of high-priced antiques and New York, solely for a daring struggle with her past. Desperate, she plunges into a brief but passion...

  • Murder in the Family

    Marc Brandel

  • The Lady and the Outlaw

    Joyce Brandon

    THE WILDEST, SWEETEST FLAMES IN ARIZONA'S SAVAGE TERRITORY. Why could she not hate him? This handsome, hell-bent outlaw, Ward Cantrell, had kidnapped her. Ravaged her. Outraged her. Yet Leslie Powers, ever a proper Bostonian lady, had quivered und...

  • Phaedra

    June Rachuy Brindel

  • Bachelor Father

    Annette Broadrick

    SHUT OUT! Tony Antonelli was a baseball superstar, but his exploits left Susan McCormick cold. She had known--and loved--the real Tony, the one who had broken her heart ten years before. Every day her son's black curls and flashing grin were a rem...

  • Hanoi Deathgrip

    Jack Buchanan

  • Hearts Are Wild

    Gina Caimi

    WINNER TAKES ALL When Andra Ramsey returned to Las Vegas to get a no-fault divorce from her professional gambler husband Drew, she didn't know that he had other plans in mind. Drew was going to win her back, and he was going to do it as if she wer...

  • Star Ride

    Barbara Cameron

    He was almost too perfect Since the day Meredith Copeland started work at Reach for the Stars Studio, she'd felt like Alice in Wonderland. When sexy writer-director Paul Sterling began courting her she felt more like Cinderella -- waiting for ...

  • Illywhacker

    Peter Carey

    In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of Peter Carey's uproarious novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and cha...

  • Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year, 1984

    Terry Carr

    This fourteenth annual "Best of the Year" collection includes John Varley's "Press Enter," Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild," Pamela Sargent's "Fears," Connie Willis's "Blue Moon," and Michael Swanwick's "Trojan Horse"...

  • Vengeance of the Dancing Gods

    Jack L. Chalker

    A Demon In The Cellar Throckmorton P. Ruddygore, master wizard, had troubles again -- but this time, they were partly of his own making. He'd finally beaten-the Dark Baron, stripped him of all magical power, and exiled him from Husaquahr to Earth. ...

  • The Messiah Choice

    Jack L. Chalker

    The mysterious and gruesome death of Sir Robert McKenzie, owner of the Magellan Corporation, leads Greg MacDonald to the discovery of a satanic cult trying to engineer the arrival of the apocalypse and threatening McKenzie's innocent heir, Angelique ...

  • The King's Way

    Francoise Chandernagor

  • To Tell the Truth

    Emily Chase

    Telling the truth is easy as pie, right? Wrong! At least that's what Shelley, Faith, and Dana begin to discover when they take a 48 hour "Truth Pledge" as part of a psychology research experiment. Although it may be the best policy, honesty isn't ...

  • Little David

    Elliott Chaze

    "In 'Little David,' newsman Kiel St. James helps the local police track down a killer who has both a political grudge and a passion for biblical weaponry. Two members of the city council of Catherine, Alabama, are found slain in a bizarre fashion---b...

  • The Master of Brendan's Isle

    Marion Clarke

    Hired to care for the Warwick’s invalid daughter, lovely gray-eyed Margaret MacNeil arrived at Brendan’s Isle with a cheerful smile and a heart full of determination. But even Margaret’s defiant spirit could not dispel the shadows all around he...

  • River Jewel

    Ann Cockcroft

    HIS STOLEN CARESSES AROUSED HER FURY -- AND IGNITED A BURNING PASSION SHE COULD NOT DENY Dazzling Jewel Lockridge was the belle of the Hudson Valley, and betrothed to a charming lawyer. Then financial ruin struck her family -- and among the wolve...

  • Guardian Angel

    Anthea Cohen

  • Head Over Heels

    Sue Ellen Cole

    SPOOK BUSTER Poltergeists, ESP, strange and unusual happenings -- they were all run of the mill for parapsychologist Dr. Sonia Barnes. So when she met stuntman Dylan Hamlin, it wasn't his startling gift of precognition that disturbed her. It w...

  • Tintagel

    Paul Cook

    """An imaginative thriller.""-Publishers Weekly ***** Music can be many things, but when it is used a medium to spread a deadly virus that transports listeners to a deadly world of dreams, it threatens the future of humanity itself.*** But not everyo...

  • Fire and Ice

    Linda A. Cooney

    They're as different as night and day... He's the red hot d.j. of Kennedy High's radio station, at the very pulse of the school's social scene. She's a cool, disciplined iceskater, too busy training to enjoy old friends or school activities. They'...

  • Spitfire

    Lori Copeland

    They met in a blazing inferno when firefighter Ryder Tate rescued Merri Lambert from her fifteenth-floor apartment. But the real sparks flew when he seized her in his arms. Although she'd fought hilt every inch of the way and he'd threatened to toss ...

  • Gardens of Earthly Delight

    Patricia Corbin

  • Cartier's Strike

    Jane Corrie

    If only they hadn't met! Sean Cartier disliked the press generally and he had special reason, he thought, to dislike reporter Sarah Helm. His cousin Don had died after Sarah had broken their engagement. And if Sarah had known that Sean was ...

  • Stirling's Desert Raiders

    Virginia Cowles

  • Master Touch

    Jasmine Craig

    When Hollywood's hottest sex symbol, Damion Tanner, tipsy on champagne, meets coolly beautiful, impeccably prim Alessandro Hawkins, he feels compelled to sober up fast. But, despite his charming apologies and thousand-watt smiles, she's unimpressed b...

  • Hide the Baron

    John Creasey

    Why is George Morrow being threatened? Why was Jimmy Garfield murdered? What was really in the box that he kept in the seat of his wheelchair? John Mannering - alias 'The Baron' - takes on another spine-tingling adventure and seeks to solve the myste...

  • Windward Passage

    Christina Crockett

    NOTHING HAD CHANGED EXCEPT HER... Miranda Calvert had worked hard the past five years. She owned her own business, her own home -- going back to Florida presented problems. The Southern Ocean Racing Conference was not her only reason for return...

  • Lion of Darkness

    Melinda Cross

    He was fallible where she was concerned After her father's death Cassie summoned the courage to leave home, where she'd been both sheltered and deprived. She turned to an exclusive New York clinic for her only chance for the future. But...

  • How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes

    Will Cuppy

  • All Wild Creatures

    Patricia Curtis

    Describes the work of the wildlife rehabilitation center in Stony Point, New York, how it came to be established and how it handles the many wild animals that are brought to it for treatment. Includes a list of similar rehabilitation centers througho...

  • Trouble with Soup

    Margery Cuyler

  • In Defense of Passion

    Kit Daley

    As a lobbyist for one of the most powerful defense contractors in America, Maggie Summers thrived on the challenge and excitement of Capitol Hill -- and couldn't wait for a little time away from it all every year. But this summer the peaceful ano...

  • The Fourth Omni Book of Science Fiction

    Ellen Datlow

  • Call Back the Dawn

    Diane Wicker Davis

    SHE HAD NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE...EXCEPT HER HEART Seven Pines was everything--home, heart, and soul--to Damask Downing. But with the flip of a card, her careless brother had lost it all to the handsome gambler who arrived to claim the lovely old Lou...

  • Memories and Ashes

    Kathryn Davis

    FLAMES OF WAR, FLAMES OF PASSION They were outcasts, the proud Hamiltons of Ashe Hill, shunned since the flames of the Civil War had destroyed the lands around them, leaving Ashe Hill mysteriously untouched. Caitlin Hamilton wondered why they had ...

  • The Splintered Moon

    Leslie Davis

    MOONLIGHT...AND MURDER Megan and her family had always been "summer people" in the lovely little Massachusetts town by the sea ... the secluded rich, who never mingled with the townsfolk, and left with the first cold wind. Megan had lon...

  • The Travels of Babar

    Jean de Brunhoff

    In the second Babar story, Babar and Celeste set off in a balloon, beginning an exciting series of adventures. Escaping from savage cannibals, only to be trapped by a circus owner, Babar knows nothing of his home country’s escalating war agains...

  • The Country Gentleman

    Dinah Dean

    She refused to believe the rumors about him -- certainly not until they could be confirmed or denied! Her curiosity was boundless... The arrival of Mr. John Harris, the new owner of Pinnacles House, was greeted with much interest by the inhabit...

  • Memory and Desire

    Inga Dean

  • The Whitbourne Legacy

    Marjorie DeBoer

    THE IRRESISTIBLE INTRUDER The tall, handsome stranger from America came into the life of proud, beautiful and sheltered Miss Rosalyn Clifton like a breath of fresh, intoxicating air. He called himself simply Mr. Worth Forrester but hinted he might...

  • Secret of the Stone

    Barbara Delinsky

    She was more than willing to share Sculptress Paige Mattheson shied away from the glamorous New York galleries that displayed her art. A private person, she was perfectly happy living by herself in her beautiful beach-front home...until Jesse Dall...

  • The Caverns of Kalte

    Joe Dever

    YOU are Lone Wolf--last of the Kai Lords. Shocking news has just reached your homeland that Vonotar the Traitor still lives and now rules over the Ice Barbarians of Kalte. The King has vowed to your people that Vonotar will be brought to justice f...

  • Night of a Thousand Stars

    Petra Diamond

    Astronaut Jennie Jacobs sees NASAs ace pilot Dean Bradshaw only in terms of his reputation -- which is as dazzling as the celestial bodies she dreams of exploring. Then, with the impact of a rocket blast, his brazen charm and surprising vulnerability...

  • Walking Dead

    Peter Dickinson

    This brilliant crime novel by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson is set in the Caribbean, where a researcher becomes trapped like a rodent in a maze When it comes to his rats, David Foxe is an expert. He decides when they eat, when they exercise...

  • Forward

    Gordon R. Dickson

  • Mickey's Pop-Up Book of Colors

    Walt Disney

  • Mickey's Pop-Up Book of Numbers

    Walt Disney

  • Mickey's Pop-Up Book of Opposites

    Walt Disney

  • Straight along a Crooked Road

    Marilyn Cram Donahue

  • Probe

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    "Zyunsinth; she crooned, rocking slightly again. "Warm. Strong. Safe. Soft. Zyunsinth." She'd been found on a lonely bluff, naked, emaciated, filthy but physically perfect -- TOO perfect. And amnesiac. The policemen who found her had not lived to ...

  • Amelia

    Kathryn Douglas

    Debutante Amelia Armitage opens a finishing school for girls after the sudden death of her father leaves her responsible for her mother and sister, but the enterprise is threatened when she falls in love with the wrong man...

  • Double Take

    Gregory Dowling

    Hungover at the end of the college term and anticipating three weeks of cat-minding for his eccentric uncle in London, Paul Stannard is drafted into the service of Her Royal Highness and finds himself adrift in the world of terrorism and espionage...

  • Forget the Glory

    Emma Drummond

    Because of a scandal back in England, Captain Rowan DeMayne, son of an earl, was forced to join the 43rd Light Dragoons, whose seven years in India were mainly spent parading in splendid uniforms on matched chestnut horses. Meanwhile, 18-year-old Mar...

  • Where Love Rules

    Elizabeth Nell Dubus

    Continues the saga of the Cajun Langlinais family who find themselves pitted against the aristocratic Charles Livaudais, when oil is discovered on adjoining Langlinais-Livaudais land, a situation that threatens the love of Beau Langlinais and Carolin...

  • The Long Way Home

    Alan Ebert

    The children of matriarch Carolyn Tiernan--Thomas, an army officer and Vietnam POW, JJ, who fled to Canada, and the fearful Marti--must rebuild their lives and relationships in the wake of the Vietnam War...

  • Forbidden Embrace

    Cassie Edwards

    PASSION'S PRISONER Tempestuous, alluring Serena Calvert knew it was wrong to be so attracted to Wesley. He was a Confederate soldier and she was a Yankee nurse. But when the young beauty stared into Wesley's dark, fathomless eyes and felt th...

  • Lone Star and the Buffalo Hunters

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki chase a secret that can change the history of the west!Born with a silver spoon in her mouth and a taste for whiskey in a tin cup, the troublesome Angela Halley has made off with a list of every member of the cartel that threatens the S...

  • Wildf Kisses for Sale

    Judith Enderle

  • Longarm and the Cowboy's Revenge

    Tabor Evans

    POLITICS IS WAR... U.S. Marshal Custis Long knows that politicians can be pretty cutthroat in the way they do business. But when a murderous convict accuses a high-powered candidate of masterminding several brutal killings, Longarm discovers a new...

  • Awake to Splendor

    Barbara Faith

    A MANY SPLENDORED THING Her sister was gone, and Rosemary Harper intended to raise Vicky's son, come hell or high water. She hadn't bargained on Antonio de Santiago. It was Tonio's nephew she'd come to get, and he wasn't going ...

  • Milk

    Beverley Farmer

  • Outsider

    Howard Fast

    The New York Times–bestselling author of Spartacus evokes the postwar Jewish-American experience through the story of a compassionate but conflicted rabbi.   After witnessing the inhumanity and devastating suffering of Dachau, chaplain Dav...

  • Quest for the Dragon's Eye

    Bill Fawcett

  • Ecstasy's Embrace

    Carol Finch

    SWEET TEMPTATION Serena didn't know how long the dark-haired stranger had been watching her bathe in the cool waters of the secluded cove, but from the searing look on his handsome face, he'd seen far too much of her pale, silken flesh! His...

  • The Irish Heiress

    Ellen Fitzgerald

    A Foreign Kind of Love -- When beautiful young Sheila Corbett was forced to leave her magnificent Irish estate to plunge into the London social whirl, she vowed not to be ensnared by the dashing dandies of the Marriage Mart. And when she met the noto...

  • Afterglow

    Rebecca Flanders

    His first encounter with her landed Adrian A. Wesley III in jail That was just for openers. By the end of the night, the Philadelphia blue blood's cashmere coat was drenched in Kentucky bourbon, he'd witnessed one of Santa's helpers ge...

  • Project Jael

    Aaron Fletcher

  • The Man Who Used the Universe

    Alan Dean Foster

    A notorious criminal pursues peace -- and power -- with alien enemies in this sci-fi novel from the #1 New York Times"bestselling author of The Damned Trilogy.   No one knows the true motives of Kees vaan Loo-Macklin. He’s a mastermind crimi...

  • Dog Rock

    David Foster

  • The House

    William Fritts

  • The Dancing Dodo

    John E. Gardner

  • Castles in the Sky

    Blanche Garland

  • Northern Fires

    Sally Garrett

    SHE HAD NEVER KNOWN SUCH HAPPINESS Nora Lane had come to the small Montana town to try to forget the tragedy that had almost destroyed her. A gentle cowboy named Paul Russell brought back her joy for living. Paul dreamed of one day owning his o...

  • Mystery of Atlantis

    Jim Gasperini

  • Little Boat

    Michel Gay

  • Innocent Pawn

    Catherine George

    She wanted his love, not his guilt money "Your money is the cause of all this," Hester accused her ex-husband wildly when their five-year-old daughter was missing and feared kidnapped. Then Jo was returned unharmed, and John set out to ...

  • Starstruck

    Marisa Gioffre

  • Explorers

    George Gipe

  • Back to Future

    George Gipe

  • The Confidence Man

    Eve Gladstone

    FAMILY FEUD The worthless old ghost town had been in the Patchin family for generations, and Liz Patchin had just inherited it. She'd come to Arvada simply because she'd wanted to see Remittance -- but there was nothing simple about that p...

  • Death Match

    Ralph Glendinning

    Tough ex-Marine Mac McGregor is the only hope of 216 innocent people, held hostage by a bloodthirsty group of terrorists, who have wired their prisoners together into a human bomb, at a luxurious Hawaiian resort...

  • The Alchemist

    Ken Goddard

    The alchemist is the mysterious mastermind of a criminal drug manufacturing ring that produces compounds whose effects mimic the effects of controlled substances, a ring that becomes the elusive target of a special police task force...

  • My Own Grandpa

    Golden Books

  • Crystal Passion

    Jo Goodman

    RAPTURE'S BRILLIANCE When Ashley awoke from her drugged sleep, she found herself in the bedchamber of a dark-haired, steel-eyed stranger. Before she could escape, his powerful hands had pinned her to the bed -- before she could scream, his lips ...

  • Rough Cut

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

  • Death on Widow's Walk

    Lesley Grant-Adamson

  • First Love, Last Love

    Ginna Gray

    THE SECOND TIME AROUND Falling in love for the first time is something a woman never forgets, and as much as Beth Prescott wanted to, she couldn't help remembering being head over heels in love with Jake Forrest. But that had been 10 years ago. ...

  • The Love Hunt

    Yvonne Greene

    Erika has had a crush on Matt Duncan ever since they danced at the New Year's ball. Matt is good-looking, athletic and funny. He's also dating another girl. But Erika's sure that if she waits patiently, Matt will see that she's perfect for him. Me...

  • Steal a Rainbow

    Sue Gross

    As a writer for Buyer Beware, Raine Walken was a pro when it came to investigating consumer fraud. But an expose on Beverly Hills art galleries presented her with an unexpected problem. The moment she walked into the elegant Rodeo Drive gallery, she ...

  • Love's Wine

    Patricia Hagan

    HOW COULD SHE FORGIVE WHAT SHE COULD NOT FORGET? She'd sworn vengeance against them all. Every Yankee scoundrel who trod the charred ruins of her once beautiful South -- and Magnolia Hall, the family home she vowed to reclaim. An encounter wi...

  • Vision

    Rusty Hallock

  • Another Eden

    Dallas Hamlin

    Just when Eve was certain she was safe, Kyle Morgan crashed his plane into her mountain and invaded her very private life. The isolated cabin where she'd come to paint and forget the hurt and scandal of the past was her retreat from romantic involvem...

  • Desire's Dream

    Peggy Hanchar

    PASSION IS WITHOUT CONSCIENCE... PRIDE IS WITHOUT REASON -- AND DESIRE IS A DREAMER Lainie Gautier's beauty threatened to betray her into a loveless marriage -- the price of her return from the shores of Imperial France to her Florida planta...

  • Oasis

    T.W. Hard

    Somewhere in the wastes of the Sudan, Diana Jacobson had vanished. Was it a case of kidnapping, rape or even death? All her brothers had to go on were two clues: a description of the hooded riders with their burning eyes and merciless swords and a st...

  • The Colorado Sting

    J.D. Hardin

    Staring Doc and Raider... HOW TO TRAP A TRAIN ROBBER Criminals didn't come any more cunning or elusive than the great Charles Le Farge. They didn't come any more twisted and sadistic, either. Raider must risk his neck on the Pinkerton wanted list and...

  • Jacob's Well

    Stephen Harrigan

    A novel about a love triangle with characters “motivated by a need to overcome loneliness and . . . retrieve submerged passions . . . Deeply moving and wise” (Publishers Weekly).   A passionate, emotionally inte...

  • An Eye for an Eye

    John D. Harris

  • Hard to Handle

    Brooke Hastings

    Roving journalist Catherine Ford Valkenberg had posed as a lady umpire and a cook on an all-male ship. Then her movie-star sister dared her to play a trick. Her masquerade as a call girl threw her into the arms of straitlaced Doug Hunter. Dressed ...

  • Favorite Fairy Tales Told Around the World

    Virginia Haviland

  • Red Flame Burning

    Ward Hawkins

  • Beneath the Surface

    Gwen Hawlin

  • Desperate Hours

    Joseph Hayes

    SOMEONE WOULD HAVE TO DIE! The three escaped convicts picked Dan Hilliard’s house as a hideout, a place to wait till the dame brought their stake. There was no warning. One night Dan came home from the office and walked into terror, into a ho...

  • Ring of Grass

    Nancy Hedberg

  • Scarlet Memories

    Betty Henrichs

    For a magic moment Gaby O'Shea was a shooting star in the modeling world. Then an auto accident drove her from the glittering Riviera back to Texas to found her own agency -- and escape the dazzling international soccer star she'd loved. But ...

  • Man Trouble

    Elizabeth Henry

    Marcy is dreaming of disaster coming to her new health-food restaurant when she's awakened by real trouble--in a decidedly masculine shape--climbing through her bedroom window Rick Davenport, a conceited specimen of narcissism if ever Marcy saw one,...

  • Slowly, Slowly In The Wind

    Patricia Highsmith

    "Highsmith's writing is wicked . . . it puts a spell on you, after which you feel altered, even tainted." -- Entertainment WeeklySlowly, Slowly in the Wind brilliantly assembles many of Patricia Highsmith's most nuanced and psychologically suspensefu...

  • Nowhere to Run

    Gerri Hirshey

    Soul evolved from gospel and blues to speak to an entire generationâ€"black and whiteâ€"about the importance of pride, freedom, determination, and R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Nowhere to Run examines the lives behind the legends of soul with energy, warmth, ...

  • Secret Island

    Jane Aiken Hodge

    MURDER THREATENED TO RUIN THE PERFECT SOCIETY To most people, Temi was a secluded Greek island of little importance. But its inhabitants knew that Temi was a spiritual haven that offered relief to a world sick with avarice and brutality. For Da...

  • Godfires

    William Hoffman

    When wealthy Rhea Gatlin's husband is found dead, struggling local prosecutor Billy Payne, an alcoholic agnostic, sees his chance to redeem himself, but his routine investigation turns into a nightmare of religious and sexual obsession...

  • A Taste of Heaven

    Samantha Hughes

    Could she ever be anything but an hors d'oeuvre to the master chef who seared her heart before she even knew his name? Iowa's Jenifer Mallory had come to France on a scholarship to study with chef Pierre Rennes at his famed Petite Auberge Sch...

  • The Everlasting Hills

    Irene Hunt

    Scorned by his embittered father and frightened by the impending marriage of his beloved sister, Bethany, twelve-year-old Jeremy, brain-damaged at birth, runs away and is rescued by an elderly recluse who gives him new self-respect and strength...

  • Streets of Gold

    Suzanne Snyder Jacobson

  • The Venetian Necklace

    Anna James

    RARER THAN RUBIES Andrea Thornton had come to Drogo Manor for one thing and one thing only: retribution. She had to clear her late husband's name. There was no room for error in her plans, no room for mistakes, and certainly no room for Zache...

  • Give Me This Night

    Vanessa James

    She could almost taste the danger! Now, here's trouble, Rebecca thought the day mystery author Cal Ryder invaded Paxos and took a villa on the most inaccessible part of the Greek island. Then passion flared between them in a blaze of excite...

  • Until Proven Guilty

    J.A. Jance

    SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN The little girl was found murdered, her pink nightgown twisted around her throat. She was only five. The woman who came to the funeral to throw a single rose on the coffin was very much alive ...and beautiful. The kind of ...

  • Halfway to Heaven

    Nancy Johanson

    No one knew better than Charlie that she needed a change. So at the peak of a stunning career on the pro golf circuit, Charline Summers was quitting! Just long enough to sort out her commitments to her sport, her father, and her God, and to discover ...

  • James the Critic

    Vivien Jones

  • Hopelessly Devoted

    Alexis Hill Jordan

    The last thing in the world executive Lindsay Madigan wanted--or thought she needed--was a stress management course. But with a big promotion on the line, she wasn't about to defy company rules. The fine art of relaxation proved to be more disturbing...

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    Julia Joyce

    LORD LAXTON'S HEIRS REELED FROM THE SHOCK... ...for their very proper father's will carries one very improper provision: that they succeed in marrying off one Genevieve Sainte-Vire, a poor French miss of inconvenient birth. Inconvenient, that is, ...

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    Kathleen Karr

    What could be more precious than the gift of words - unless it was the man who brought them to her? Young Maggie McDonald was athirst for knowledge, and books contained knowledge, but Maggie couldn't read! Then lively Johnny Stewart burst into the ro...

  • Open House

    William Katz

    Each victim is young, attractive, and alone. Each one dies with a clean puncture would to the heart. And each one is found with a macabre memento, a brightly colored papier-mache gondola carefully placed on her head. For a city where fear never sleep...

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    Leo P. Kelley

  • Essence of Summer

    Dianne King

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  • The Heartbreak Of Haltom High

    Dawn Kingsbury

    Rush had always been a ladies’ man. One look at his sexy grin and girls couldn’t leave him alone. They fell for him like ninepins. Love ‘em and leave ‘em was him motto … until he met Aubrey, who appeared from the start to be surprisingly...

  • Only With the Heart

    Sandra Kitt

    They sought freedom--and found love Travis Hoyt emerged from the night to pluck her from a rainswept doorway. His manner was rough, his face forbidding, but Cathy Donnelly gratefully accepted his offer of sanctuary from the storm. Soaked to the sk...

  • The Small Rain

    Madeleine L'engle

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  • An Aboriginal Mother Tells of the Old and the New

    Elsie R. Labumore

    Elsie Roughsey was born into the Lardil tribe on Mornington Island, Australia in 1923 soon after the first missionaries arrived. Raised in a dormitory mission and in the traditional life of her tribe, she writes about power, religion, love and marria...

  • This Shining Land

    Rosalind Laker

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  • This Time Forever

    Ruth Langan

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  • Wait for the Sun

    Maryn Langer

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  • A Matter of Revenge

    Marti Laven

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  • Cartridge Coast

    Roy Lebeau

    Lee Morgan, the bastard son of Buckskin Frank Leslie, follows in his father's footsteps when he successfully leads his herd to San Francisco and decides to spend his money on games of chance and willing women, which gets him into trouble with notorio...

  • The Way of the Wind

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  • Cheyenne Dreams

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  • Doyle's Disciples

    Bob Leuci

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  • A Change of Heart

    Lillian Lincoln

    "NO, LUKE, I WILL NOT MARRY YOU. I AM SURPRISED THAT YOU ASK IT OF ME." Luke Westcott winced at the stinging setdown he received in answer to his proposal. After all, it was common knowledge that marriage to him had long been Jessica Sheridan's ...

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  • Murder Makes Tracks

    Gillian Linscott

  • So Grand

    Christopher Logan

  • The Star Snatchers

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  • Outrageous Behavior

    Morris Lurie

  • Vows of Desire

    Catherine Lyndell

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  • Deadly Welcome

    John D. MacDonald

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  • Spring at Sevenoaks

    Miriam MacGregor

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    Joseph Machlis

  • Tough Guys Die Hard

    John Mackie

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  • Reckless Moon

    Doreen Owens Malek

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  • Grave Goods

    Jessica Mann

    When the author of a manuscript on the disappearance of the Prussian crown jewels in the mid-1800s is killed just before a scheduled exhibition of the jewels, archaeologist and British secret agent Tamara Hoyland investigates a century of fraud...

  • Sweet Enchantment

    Diana Mars

    Horrified, hospital administrator Pamela Shaw moves her hands over the big, bare-chested jogger sprawled across the road, assessing the damage just done by her car. Apparently pain hasn't cooled the man's anger ... or his quickly rising ardor. To her...

  • Against The Odds

    Andrea Marshall

  • Lone Star Stud

    Cort Martin

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  • Beyond the Dream

    Nancy Martin

    She longed for a past to haunt her. But she had no memory of her former life. The hospital roster listed her as Beth Doe, amnesia victim. And in three months. no family member stepped forward to claim her. Overjoyed to learn her husband, playwright S...

  • Tigers of the Night

    Vicky Martin

  • Eagle Down

    William Mason

  • Condor

    Graham Masterton

    An unscrupulous senator, who was a secret Nazi collaborator in World War II, releases a deadly new disease in hopes of furthering his bid to become president....

  • Eight Black Horses

    Ed McBain

    There was a dead body. Or two. They were Christmas greetings from the Deaf Man, the master criminal who was back with deadly plans in mind for the 87th Precinct. Detectives Kling, Carella and Meyer knew the messages were clues to where the Deaf Man w...

  • Lightning

    Ed McBain

    Two perps—one a serial killer and the other a rapist who revisits his victims—test the limits of the 87th Precinct’s detectives as they race to catch these maniacs loose on the city’s streets.

    “McBain has the abi...

  • Secret Longings

    Sharon McCaffree

    The embarrassing evidence was unmistakable She'd forgotten how to date. Was it the blossoming of spring in Shreveport or the chance phone call that caused Meg Bronson to take a fresh look at Robert Clark Dowell? Suddenly, the man she'd always c...

  • Message from the Mountains

    Edith S. McCall

  • Procyon's Promise

    Michael McCollum

    For millennia, the Makers’ Life Probes explored the farthest reaches of space in search of the secret behind faster-than-light speed. In the 22nd century, the people of Earth made a pact with this far-flung civilization -- all of the Makers’ inte...

  • Abomination

    Gordon McGill

  • Dara's Desire

    Kay McMahon

    Alluring and headstrong, Dara Brandon left her family home to search for her missing brother, but discovered instead the secrets of love in the arms of a mysterious stranger. His cold piercing eyes turned her blood to liquid fire. His tender caress a...

  • Lifekeeper

    Mike McQuay

    WAR WAS THE NEW RELIGION - AND A COMPUTER WAS THE NEW GOD... Milcon Forty-Three had been ruled by an intricate computer system for so long and no one could remember who has established it or why. So when the computer went haywire, and the death toll...

  • Mother Earth

    Mike McQuay

    In the bright years before civilization fell, the ancients created a dozen new races, each gifted with strange powers. But in the dark centuries that followed, men hunted them to the verge of extinction, until one born to lead - Morgan of Alb'ny - f...

  • The Tales of Patrick Merla

    Patrick Merla

  • Leaving Home

    Leigh Michaels

    Had he sacrificed his happiness for her? Brodie McKenzie had always counted on Drew Hammond to look after her, provide for her and keep her safe. She hated to think that her dependence on Drew had kept him from finding happiness--especially now. ...

  • Roxanne

    Jane Claypool Miner

    From small town girl to Hollywood star her heart would belong to only one boy. Theirs would be the greatest love story Hollywood had ever known. Roxanne has come from a small town to Hollywood with one dream: to become a star. And she will do anyth...

  • Ceremonial Time

    John Hanson Mitchell

  • The Continent of Lies

    James Morrow

    A dystopian tale about mass-entertainment-turned-toxic from the award-winning author of Towing Jehovah—perfect for Philip K. Dick fans.  Cutting-edge virtual reality has emerged as a popular, albeit controversial, source of amusement. Devo...